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enHeartland Institute Tries To Poison Classrooms With Partisan Climate Pseudosciencehttp://www.desmogblog.com/2013/11/07/heartland-tries-poison-classrooms-partisan-climate-pseudoscience
<div class="field field-name-field-bimage field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/styles/blog_teaser/public/blogimages/heartland_unabomber.jpg?itok=LHGzRjC4" width="200" height="120" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>“<span class="caps">YOU</span> have an important decision to make,” wrote Diane Bast from the conservative Heartland Institute in a <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/nipcc_letter_to_science_teachers.pdf" target="_blank">memo</a> posted to science teachers across the <span class="caps">US</span> last month.</p>
<p>“Will you tell your students the “science is settled” on global warming, as the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (<span class="caps">IPCC</span>) claims it is?”</p>
<p>The Heartland Institute likes to ask disingenuous questions like this. Who can forget its disastrous billboard campaign of last year with that picture of terrorist and murderer Ted “Unabomber” Kaczynski and the words “I still believe in Global Warming. Do you?”</p>
<p>Not surprisingly, after hearing of the billboard <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/corporate-exodus-heartland-institute-continues-usaa-and-insurers-bail" target="_blank">key private sponsors and funders of Heartland pulled their support</a> quicker than you can say “<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2012/may/04/heartland-institute-global-warming-murder" target="_blank">What on earth were they thinking?</a>”</p>
<p>The Heartland Institute is a conservative free market “think tank” that has made the ideologically-driven denial of climate change science one its core causes. The organisation has accepted millions of dollars from the likes of Exxon, family foundations built on polluting industries and many <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/feb/14/donors-trust-funding-climate-denial-networks" target="_blank">millions more via a slush fund financed by anonymous conservative millionaires</a>.</p>
<p>Diane Bast, the wife of Heartland president Joseph Bast, was writing to the science teachers to introduce the free copies of its enclosed Nongovernmental Panel on Climate Change report - Climate Change Reconsidered <span class="caps">II</span>.</p>
<p>“Like the <span class="caps">IPCC</span>'s reports, <span class="caps">NIPCC</span>'s reports cite thousands of articles appearing in peer-reviewed science journals relevant to the subject of human-induced climate change,” wrote Bast, who said the report was “comprehensive, objective, and faithful to the scientific method.”</p>
<p>Yet the report is anything but. Australian astrophysicist Dr Michael Brown, of Monash University in Melbourne, described it succinctly as “partisan pseudoscience”. Dr Brown wrote in <a href="http://theconversation.com/adversaries-zombies-and-nipcc-climate-pseudoscience-17378" target="_blank">The Conversation</a>:</p>
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Does the <span class="caps">NIPCC</span> fairly and robustly assess the science? No. It is all too easy to find “debunked” papers getting a second life in latest <span class="caps">NIPCC</span> report.</blockquote>
<p>The <span class="caps">NIPCC</span> report, Brown found, had a habit of citing sceptic papers which had managed to find their way into a journal without mentioning the responses to those papers, also published in the peer-reviewed literature. “Dead science lives in the <span class="caps">NIPCC</span> reports,” wrote Brown, adding:</p>
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It is this deliberately partisan, selective, and uncritical approach to evidence that marks the <span class="caps">NIPCC</span> report as a work of pseudoscience.</blockquote>
<p>Steve Newton, a Programs and Policy Director at the National Center for Science Education, said he was concerned some teachers - from Kindergarten to Grade 12 - might at first glance be fooled by Heartland's appeal. He wrote:</p>
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The danger in the Heartland Institute's mass mailing is that some K-12 teachers may mistake what they see for real science. K-12 teachers teach a wide range of subjects in which they have variable experience and expertise. As climate science is incorporated into courses, many teachers find themselves looking for information to use in class. And here, delivered right to their mailbox, is Heartland's report dressed up to look like a real scientific assessment from that group…what was the name, again? <span class="caps">NIPCC</span>? <span class="caps">IPCC</span>? Are they different?</blockquote>
<p>Writing on the <a href="http://ncse.com/blog/2013/10/alternative-reality-heartland-institute-s-nipcc-report-0015140" target="_blank"><span class="caps">NCSE</span> Science League of America</a> blog, Newton said rather than being comprehensive and objective, the <span class="caps">NIPCC</span> offers “the tiniest slice of information possible, cherry-picked factoids out of context and without regard to the overall picture”. Newton pointed out the disingenuous nature of Diane Bast's memo for asking teachers if they would explain to their students that “science is <em>never settled</em>”. Newton wrote:</p>
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To say that science can never come to <em>any</em> conclusions, that we can never reasonably settle any question, is to give up on the entire scientific adventure of understanding the natural world. If we can never know anything, what’s the point of investigating? This message is profoundly anti-science, and teachers should know that what Heartland and the <span class="caps">NIPCC</span> stand for is not some “alternative” science, but a private, alternative reality.</blockquote>
<p>But this isn't Heartland's first attempt to push its partisan view on educators, teachers and pupils. Internal Heartland documents revealed in 2011 that the organisation wanted to pay a former coal industry consultant <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/david-wojick" target="_blank">David Wojick</a> to write a “global warming curriculum” for K-12 students which would focus on “controversial” aspects of the science. Heartland wrote at the time:</p>
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Heartland has tried to make material available to teachers, but has had only limited success. Principals and teachers are heavily biased toward the alarmist perspective.</blockquote>
<p>Back when Heartland was putting up billboards of the Unabomber, the organisation's president Joseph Bast wrote that “Of course, not all global warming alarmists are murderers or tyrants”. <span style="letter-spacing: 0.03em; line-height: 1.5em;">Apparently, Heartland also think some of them might be teachers too. </span></p>
<p><span style="letter-spacing: 0.03em; line-height: 1.5em;">The organisation, like other climate science denialists, seems keen to poison classrooms with partisan and politicised propaganda. </span></p>
<p><span style="letter-spacing: 0.03em; line-height: 1.5em;">In April, Heartland <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/4/prweb10660081.htm" target="_blank">bragged it had sent 100,000 copies of a climate science denial book</a> to “educators, business and civic leaders, judges, environmental journalists, and elected officials across the country”. Heartland also mailed a <span class="caps">DVD</span> aimed at school children which argued climate change was mostly caused by the sun and not emissions of greenhouse gases. </span></p>
<p><span style="letter-spacing: 0.03em; line-height: 1.5em;">High profile Australian climate science denier, mining director and geologist Professor Ian Plimer has also </span><a href="http://www.readfearn.com/2011/12/plimer-and-howard-maintain-the-rage-with-climate-science-denial/" style="letter-spacing: 0.03em; line-height: 1.5em;" target="_blank">targeted school children last year with his book “How To get Expelled From School: A guide to climate change for pupils, parents and punters”</a><span style="letter-spacing: 0.03em; line-height: 1.5em;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="letter-spacing: 0.03em; line-height: 1.5em;">Also in Australia, the conservative Liberal National Party in the coal mining state of Queensland voted at its state convention to ban the teaching of climate change science in schools. </span></p>
<p><span style="letter-spacing: 0.03em; line-height: 1.5em;">The proposal was put by a local doctor and party member who had also claimed to have possibly </span><a href="http://www.readfearn.com/2012/07/greenhouse-gas-theory-disproved-with-two-fish-boxes-and-a-roll-of-cling-film/" style="letter-spacing: 0.03em; line-height: 1.5em;" target="_blank">disproven the greenhouse theory in an experiment at his home using only two styrofoam boxes, a roll of plastic Glad Wrap and some bicarbonate of soda</a><span style="letter-spacing: 0.03em; line-height: 1.5em;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="letter-spacing: 0.03em; line-height: 1.5em;">As far as I know, these revelations didn't end up in the <span class="caps">NIPCC</span> report. Perhaps they just missed it.</span></p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-14 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/2427">heartland</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/1246">Joseph Bast</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/939">climate change</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/5050">diane bast</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/14309">Michael Brown</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/9695">lnp</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/7101">queensland</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/662">coal</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/695">david wojick</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/8140">ncse</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/14310">steve newton</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/8434">NIPCC</a></div></div></div>Thu, 07 Nov 2013 13:00:00 +0000Graham Readfearn7604 at http://www.desmogblog.comEvaluation shows "Faked" Heartland Climate Strategy Memo is Authentichttp://www.desmogblog.com/evaluation-shows-faked-heartland-climate-strategy-memo-authentic
<div class="field field-name-field-bimage field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/styles/blog_teaser/public/blogimages/heartland%20logo_0.jpg?itok=EgB0Hsgm" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>A line-by-line evaluation of the <a href="../../sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/2012%20Climate%20Strategy%20%283%29.pdf">Climate Strategy</a> memo, which the <a href="http://heartland.org/press-releases/2012/02/20/heartland-institute-comments-fakegate">Heartland Institute has repeatedly denounced as a “fake”</a> shows no “<em><u>obvious and gross </u>misstatements of fact,</em>” as Heartland has alleged. On the contrary, the Climate Strategy document is corroborated by Heartland’s own material and/or by its allies and employees.</p>
<p>It also uses phrases, language and, in many cases, whole sentences that were taken directly from Heartland’s own material. Only someone who had <u>previous access</u> to all of that material could have prepared the Climate Strategy in its current form.</p>
<p>In all the circumstances – taking into account Peter Gleick’s explanation of the origin of the Heartland documents, and in direct contradiction of Heartland’s stated position – DeSmogBlog has concluded that the Climate Strategy memo is authentic. </p>
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<p>Judge for yourself:</p>
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<p><strong>January 2012</strong></p>
<p><strong>Confidential Memo: 2012 Heartland Climate Strategy</strong></p>
<p>Given the increasingly important role the Heartland Institute is playing in leading the fight to prevent the implementation of dangerous policy actions to address the supposed risks of global warming, it is useful to set priorities for our efforts in 2012.</p>
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<p><strong>DeSmogBlog: Heartland has in fact played an increasingly important role in attacking the science of global warming. After the <span class="caps">UK</span> Royal Society publicly attacked Exxon for its financial support of the leading climate-change-denying think tanks, the Competitive Enterprise Institute stepped back as the most prominent and public policy house. That opened ground for the Heartland Institute, which launched its <a href="http://climateconference.heartland.org/">International Conference on Climate Change</a> series (the “<a href="../../ny-denial-a-palooza-is-a-media-hit">Denial-a-palooza</a>”) in 2008. </strong></p>
<p><strong>Heartland material about climate change also regularly employs terminology such as “<em>dangerous policy actions</em>” and “<em>supposed risks of global warming</em>”. One of Heartland’s long-standing arguments is that addressing global warming will have catastrophic consequences for the economy.</strong></p>
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<p>This document offers such a set of priorities.</p>
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<p><strong>DeSmogBlog: It is entirely logical that Heartland’s Board would want to consider setting priorities for its anti-global warming activities at its first meeting of the calendar and fiscal year.</strong></p>
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<p><u>I propose that at this point it be kept confidential and only be distributed to a subset of Institute Board and senior staff.</u></p>
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<p><strong>DeSmogBlog: Peter Gleick’s explanation that he received this memo in hard copy form by anonymous mail is consistent with it not having formed part of the complete package given to the Board. It appears that Gleick must have scanned the printed document to create the electronic version that he could distribute with the later material he obtained from Heartland. </strong></p>
<p><strong>If the document had been given to all Institute Board members and formed an element of the complete package, Gleick would presumably have received it twice – the second time when he requested and was sent the Board documents. </strong></p>
<p><strong>Assuming the Climate Strategy memo was not shared with the Institute’s entire Board, it would be extremely embarrassing for the memo’s author and inner circle recipients to admit they had withheld it from other Board members. This would create a powerful incentive for the author to deny this document’s authenticity: the implied insult to Board members that Heartland treats as second-class could be more damaging to Heartland than the public embarrassment of its inflammatory subject matter.</strong></p>
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<p>More details can be found in our <a href="../../sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/%281-15-2012%29%202012%20Heartland%20Budget%20%282%29.pdf">2012 Proposed Budget document</a> and <a href="../../sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/%281-15-2012%29%202012%20Fundraising%20Plan.pdf">2012 Fundraising Strategy</a> memo. In 2012 our efforts will focus in the following areas:</p>
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<p><strong>DeSmogBlog: Peter Gleick <a href="../../whistleblower-authenticates-heartland-documents">now confirms</a> that he received these documents by email directly from Heartland. </strong></p>
<p><strong>Yet the Institute has refused to acknowledge their authenticity, even going so far as to accuse the DeSmogBlog and other sources of publishing “stolen” documents without admitting their origin. Given the overlap between these documents and the Climate Strategy, it will be hard for Heartland to continue to disavow the latter as “a fake” now that the main tranche of documents has been authenticated. </strong></p>
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<p><strong>Increased climate project fundraising</strong></p>
<p>Our climate work is attractive to funders, especially our key Anonymous Donor (whose contribution dropped from $1,664,150 in 2010 to $979,000 in 2011 - about 20% of our total 2011 revenue).</p>
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<p><strong>DeSmogBlog: Various documents confirm there is an “Anonymous Donor.” The contribution figures in brackets are confirmed in the Heartland <a href="../../sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/%281-15-2012%29%202012%20Heartland%20Budget%20%282%29.pdf">Budget</a> document and corroborated in Table 5 at page 21 of the 2012 Fundraising Plan document. Table 5 shows that in 2010, $964.150 received from the Anonymous Donor was allocated to “Global Warming Projects.” In 2009, the sum of $1,732,180 was allocated to Global Warming Projects and in 2008, the sum of $3,300,000. </strong></p>
<p><strong>The general financial downturn in 2008 may well explain the subsequent year-over-year decline in donations from the Anonymous Donor. (The other conclusion would be that the Anonymous Donor thought Heartland was not effective.)</strong></p>
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<p>He has promised an increase in 2012 - see the 2011 Fourth Quarter Financial Report.</p>
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<p><strong>DeSmogBlog: This statement is corroborated by the 2012 Fundraising Plan which states at page 20 under the heading “<em>4. Anonymous Donor</em>”:</strong></p>
<p style="margin-left:28.35pt;"><strong><em>Because the Anonymous Donor has given a large percentage of the Heartland’s budget in past years, it is useful to single out his expected gift at the beginning of the year. </em></strong></p>
<p style="margin-left:28.35pt;"><strong><em>In 2011, he gave Heartland $979,000, less than any year since 2005. In January 2012, he pledged $1 million. We project that he will give $250,000 more over the course of the year.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong>Table 6 at page 21 confirms the Anonymous Donor’s million dollar pledge for the first quarter of 2012, of which $194,000 is allocated for the Non-governmental International Panel on Climate Change (<span class="caps">NIPCC</span>) Project, $44,000 for the (Anthony Watts) Weather Stations Project, and $100,000 for the Global Warming Curriculum Project.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Further corroboration is found in the 2012 Proposed Budget which states at page 3:</strong></p>
<p style="margin-left:28.35pt;"><strong><em>Anonymous Donor: We expect the Anonymous Donor to contribute $1,250,000 in 2012 in gifts for budgeted projects, 28 percent more than he contributed in 2011, but still less than he contributed in any other year since 2004. He already pledged to give $1 million in January.</em></strong></p>
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<p>We will also pursue additional support from the Charles G. Koch Foundation. They returned as a Heartland donor in 2011 with a contribution of $200,000. We expect to push up their level of support in 2012 and gain access to their network of philanthropists, if our focus continues to align with their interests.</p>
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<p><strong>DeSmogBlog: This appears to be a misstatement but only as to timing: the budget and fundraising documents confirm that the Charles G. Koch Foundation gave $25,000 in 2011, and that Heartland expected that figure to jump up to $200,000 in 2012. For example, the Fundraising Plan which states at page 7:</strong></p>
<p style="margin-left:28.35pt;"><strong><em><span class="dquo">“</span>The Charles G. Koch Foundation returned as a Heartland donor in 2011. We expect to ramp up their level of support in 2012 and gain access to the network of philanthropists they work with.”</em></strong></p>
<p><strong>The same document states at page 13:</strong></p>
<p style="margin-left:28.35pt;"><strong><span class="caps">NIPCC</span> is currently funded by two gifts a year from two foundations, both of them requesting anonymity. In 2012 we plan to solicit gifts from other donors to add to what these two donors are giving in order to cover more of our fixed costs for promoting the first two <em>Climate Change Reconsidered</em> volumes and writing and editing the volume scheduled for release in 2013. We hope to raise $200,000 in 2012.</strong></p>
<p><strong>See also the 2012 Proposed Budget at page 4 where a table of Projected Income from Lapsed and First-Time Donors by Project allocates a budget of $200,000 to the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (<span class="caps">NIPCC</span>) and a budget of $200,000 to the Global Warming Curriculum Project.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Heartland donors’ apparent appetite for anonymity – and Koch’s toxic profile as a major funder of anti-democratic and anti-climate science activism – would explain why the 2012 Fundraising Plan does not explicitly mention the source of the large infusion of precisely $200,000 in 2012. DeSmogBlog also assumes that the reference to a $200,000 contribution (and not $25,000) in 2011 was probably a slip-up by the Climate Strategy memo’s author, who probably meant to refer to a promise made in 2011 in that amount.</strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.charleskochfoundationfacts.org/2012/02/foundation-statement-on-heartland-institute/">A disavowal from the Koch Foundation </a>suggests that Heartland will have to abandon its hopes of a $200,000 payment from Koch in 2012. </strong></p>
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<p>Other contributions will be pursued for this work, especially from corporations whose interests are threatened by climate policies.</p>
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<p><strong>DeSmogBlog: The Heartland 2012 <a href="../../sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/%281-15-2012%29%202012%20Fundraising%20Plan.pdf">Fundraising Plan </a>explicitly states at page 12:</strong></p>
<p style="margin-left:28.35pt;"><strong><em>While ideologically motivated individual donors are apt to contribute for general operating, corporations and (increasingly) foundations want project-specific proposals…During 2012 we plan to fundraise for 10 new or relaunched projects designed to attract new donors.”</em></strong></p>
<p><strong>Table 3 at page 6 identifies “Target Groups for Potential Major Donors” which include “<em>Officers, <span class="caps">PR</span> and <span class="caps">GR</span> officials at corporations with an interest in free-market policy messages on topics covered in Heartland publications.” </em>(Heartland has numerous publications concerning global warming.) The sources for that target group include “Media coverage of corporations and industries under attack.”</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Development of our “Global Warming Curriculum for K-12 Classrooms” project.</strong></p>
<p>Principals and teachers are heavily biased toward the alarmist perspective.</p>
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<p><strong>DeSmogBlog: The word “alarmist” is part of the Heartland lexicon. It is their terminology for real climate scientists. The word appears continuously in Heartland publications concerning climate change.</strong></p>
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<p>To counter this we are considering launching an effort to develop alternative materials for K-12 classrooms.</p>
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<p><strong>DeSmogBlog: This statement is corroborated by the 2012 Fundraising Plan which states at page 18:</strong></p>
<p style="margin-left:28.35pt;"><em>H. Global warming curriculum for K-12 Schools<br />
Many people lament the absence of educational material suitable for K-12 students on global warming that isn’t alarmist or overtly political. … Principals and teachers are heavily biased toward the alarmist perspective. … </em></p>
<p><strong>The 2012 Fundraising Plan then proceeds to detail how Heartland will arrange for the preparation of alternative materials for K-12 classrooms.</strong></p>
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<p>We are pursuing a proposal from Dr. David Wojick to produce a global warming curriculum for K-12 schools.</p>
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<p><strong>DeSmogBlog: The 2012 Fundraising Plan states at page 18:</strong></p>
<p style="margin-left:28.35pt;"><strong><em>Dr. David Wojick has presented Heartland with a proposal to produce a global warming curriculum for K-12 schools that appears to have great potential for success.</em></strong></p>
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<p>Dr. Wojick is a consultant with the Office of Scientific and Technical Information at the <span class="caps">U.S.</span> Department of Energy in the area of information and communication science.</p>
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<p><strong>DeSmogBlog: The 2012 Fundraising Plan states at page 18:</strong></p>
<p style="margin-left:28.35pt;"><strong><em>Dr. Wojick is a consultant with the Office of Scientific and Technical Information at the <span class="caps">U.S.</span> Department of Energy in the area of information and communication science.</em></strong></p>
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<p>His effort will focus on providing curriculum that shows that the topic of climate change is controversial and uncertain - two key points that are effective at dissuading teachers from teaching science.</p>
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<p><strong>DeSmogBlog: This is corroborated by the 2012 Fundraising Plan which states at page 18: </strong></p>
<p style="margin-left:28.35pt;"><em>Dr. Wojick proposes to begin work on “modules” for grades 10-12 on climate change (“whether humans are changing the climate is a major scientific controversy”), climate models (“models are used to explore various hypotheses about how climate works. Their reliability is controversial”), and air pollution (“whether <span class="caps">CO</span>2 is a pollutant is controversial. It is the global food supply and natural emissions are 20 times higher than human emissions”).</em></p>
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<p>We tentatively plan to pay Dr. Wojick $100,000 for 20 modules in 2012, with funding pledged by the Anonymous Donor.</p>
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<p><strong>DeSmogBlog: This is corroborated by the 2012 Fundraising Plan which states at page 18:</strong></p>
<p style="margin-left:28.35pt;"><strong><em>We tentatively plan to pay Dr. Wojick $5,000 per module, about $25,000 a quarter, starting in the second quarter of 2012 for this work. The Anonymous donor has pledged the first $100,000 for this project, and we will circulate a proposal to match and then expand upon that investment.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong>Wojick, who by the way has no background or expertise in climate science, has <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/green/2012/02/14/425354/internal-documents-climate-denier-heartland-institute-plans-global-warming-curriculum-for-k-12-schools/">confirmed independently</a> that he has been engaged to do this work.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Heartland’s suggestion that climate change is controversial and uncertain bears no relation to the true state of science, which is perhaps why the author of the Climate Strategy Memo admits (in what may be a Freudian slip) that those “<em>two key points …</em></strong><em> <strong>are effective at dissuading teachers from teaching science</strong></em>.”</p>
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<p><strong>Funding for parallel organizations.</strong></p>
<p>Heartland is part of a growing network of groups working the climate issues, some of which we support financially. We will seek additional partnerships in 2012. At present we sponsor the <span class="caps">NIPCC</span> to undermine the official United Nations’ <span class="caps">IPCC</span> reports and paid a team of writers $388,000 in 2011 to work on a series of editions <em>of Climate Change Reconsidered. </em>Expenses will be about the same in 2012. <span class="caps">NIPCC</span> is currently funded by two gifts a year from two foundations, both of them requesting anonymity.</p>
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<p><strong>DeSmogBlog: The 2012 Proposed Budget states at page 7:</strong></p>
<p style="margin-left:28.35pt;"><strong><em>The two tables below summarize the multi-year budget for the project and personnel costs for the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (<span class="caps">NIPCC</span>), an international group of scientists that produces critiques of the reports of the United Nations' <span class="caps">IPCC</span>. Heartland hosts and funds the effort. A growing number of scientists have been recruited by Craig Idso to be contributing authors and editors of <span class="caps">NIPCC</span>’s major reports, a series titled Climate Change Reconsidered. Two volumes have been published so far.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong>Further, the 2012 Fundraising Plan states at page 13:</strong></p>
<p style="margin-left:28.35pt;"><strong><em>Heartland sponsors the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (<span class="caps">NIPCC</span>), an international network of scientists who write and speak out on climate change. Heartland pays a team of scientists approximately $300,000 a year to work on a series of editions of Climate Change Reconsidered, the most comprehensive and authoritative rebuttal of the United Nations’ <span class="caps">IPCC</span> reports. </em></strong></p>
<p><strong>The use of “rebuttal” in this context certainly supports the interpretation that the <span class="caps">NIPCC</span>’s purpose is “to undermine the official United Nation's <span class="caps">IPCC</span> reports. </strong></p>
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<p>Another $88,000 is earmarked this year for Heartland staff, incremental expenses, and overhead for editing, expense reimbursement for the authors, and marketing.</p>
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<p><strong>DeSmogBlog: This is corroborated in the 2012 Fundraising Plan which states at page 13:</strong></p>
<p style="margin-left:28.35pt;"><strong><em>Another $88,000 is earmarked for Heartland staff, incremental expenses, and overhead for editing, expense reimbursement for the authors, and marketing.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong>Note that the political – rather than scientific – nature of the <span class="caps">NIPCC</span>'s work has been well-documented <a href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2008/11/not-the-ipcc-nipcc-report/">elsewhere</a>.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Funding for selected individuals outside of Heartland.</strong></p>
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<p>Our current budget includes funding for high-profile individuals who regularly and publicly counter the alarmist <span class="caps">AGW</span> message. At the moment, this funding goes primarily to Craig Idso ($11,600 per month), Fred Singer ($5,000 per month, plus expenses), Robert Carter ($1,667 per month), and a number of other individuals, but we will consider expanding it, if funding can be found.</p>
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<p><strong>DeSmogBlog: This is corroborated by table 3 at page 7 of the 2012 Proposed Budget which describes Craig Idso as a Senior Editor, Center for the Study of <span class="caps">CO</span>2 and Global Change; Fred Singer as Co-Editor, Science and Environmental Policy Project; and Robert Carter, Co-Editor, James Cook University and Institute for Public Affairs, Australia.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Note that Heartland’s propensity for inadvertent misstatement spills into its own budget documents. For example, Heartland's Budget speaks of paying “Susan Crockford” for a chapter “2.2 Terrestrial Animals,” at the University of Victoria in “Australia.” Crockford is in fact a professor at the University of Victoria in British Columbia (which Joe Bast ought to realize is in Canada). Crockford advertises herself as an expert in “the evolution and history of the domestic dog.” There is no mention in the Heartland material of any qualifications relevant to climate change. </strong></p>
<p><strong>Bob Carter (who really <span class="caps">IS</span> from Australia) confirmed the information about him in the 2012 Proposed Budget during an interview with the <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/scientist-denies-he-is-mouthpiece-of-us-climatesceptic-think-tank-20120215-1t6yi.html">Sydney Morning Herald</a>.</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Expanded climate communications</strong></p>
<p>Heartland plays an important role in climate communications, especially through our in-house experts (e.g., Taylor) through his Forbes blog and related high profile outlets, our conferences, and through coordination with external networks (such as <span class="caps">WUWT</span> and other groups capable of rapidly mobilizing responses to new scientific findings, news stories, or unfavorable blog posts).</p>
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<p><strong>DeSmogBlog: This is corroborated by <a href="http://www.globalwarmingheartland.org/">Heartland's website which lists James Taylor</a> as a Senior Fellow. Taylor does, indeed, write periodically in <em>Forbes. </em>Heartland also appears to have a close relationship with <span class="caps">WUWT</span>, which is weather forecaster Anthony Watts website, What's Up With That. For example, when Peter Gleick publicly acknowledged his role in getting Heartland to hand over their Board package, the Institute chose to use <a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/02/20/statement-by-the-heartland-institute-on-gleick-confession/"><span class="caps">WUWT</span> to release their reaction</a>, even in priority to publishing the information on their own website.</strong></p>
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<p>Efforts at places such as <em>Forbes</em> are especially important now that they have begun to allow high profile climate scientists (such as Gleick) to post warmist science essays that counter our own.</p>
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<p><strong>DeSmogBlog: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Gleick">Dr. Peter Gleick</a>, who explained the origins of the leak of Heartland documents, is also a frequent contributor at <em>Forbes. </em>And again, throughout this document, as on its website and in other documents, Heartland uses the adjective “warmist” to indicate someone who gives an accurate interpretation to the human cause – and likely effects – of global warming.</strong></p>
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<p>This influential audience has usually been reliably anti-climate and it is important to keep opposing voices out. Efforts might also include cultivating more neutral voices with big audiences (such as Revkin at DotEarth/<span class="caps">NYT</span>imes, who has a well-known antipathy for some of the more extreme <span class="caps">AGW</span> communicators such as Romm, Trenberth, and Hansen) or Curry (who has become popular with our supporters).</p>
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<p><strong>DeSmogBlog: This is mostly editorial comment, although <em>Forbes </em>has distinguished itself on many previous occasions by choosing to concentrate on material that suggests there is still some debate over the causes of climate change. </strong></p>
<p><strong>Andrew Revkin <a href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/documents-appear-to-reveal-broad-effort-to-amplify-climate-uncertainty/">commented on his blog</a> that he felt this reference undermined the credibility of the Climate Strategy memo, saying, “It (the strategy document) always seemed dubious, given that the document said it might be worth 'cultivating' me as a 'neutral' voice. After all, it wasn’t too long ago that the group called me “<a href="http://heartland.org/policy-documents/dialogue-global-warming">a noted ally of the alarmist camp</a>.” Certainly, it would be embarrassing for a former <em>New York Times </em>environment reporter to be labelled “neutral” by an organization such as Heartland. But Revkin’s <a href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/20/peter-gleick-admits-to-deception-in-obtaining-heartland-climate-files/">attack on Peter Gleick</a> tends to corroborate the Climate Strategy memo’s assessment, especially given that Revkin failed, in the same article, to offer any direct criticism of an organization that has dedicated itself for years to climate disinformation.</strong></p>
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<p>We have also pledged to help raise around $90,000 in 2012 for Anthony Watts to help him create a new website to track temperature station data.</p>
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<p><strong>DeSmogBlog: This is corroborated in the 2012 Fundraising Plan which states at pages 19-20:</strong></p>
<p style="margin-left:28.35pt;"><strong>Anthony Watts proposes to create a new Web site devoted to accessing the new temperature data from <span class="caps">NOAA</span>’s web site and converting them into easy-to-understand graphs that can be easily found and understood by weathermen and the general interested public. …The new site will be promoted heavily at WattsUpwithThat.com.</strong></p>
<p style="margin-left:28.35pt;"><strong>Heartland has agreed to help Anthony raise $88,000 for the project in 2011. The Anonymous donor has already pledged $44,000. We’ll seek to raise the balance.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Further, Anthony Watts himself has <a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/02/15/notes-on-the-fake-heartland-document/">confirmed the details </a>of this project, but he later stated that the rounding up from $88,000 to $90,000 indicated that the document is a fake, saying the Climate Strategy, “</strong><strong>gets the operational details (budget) wrong – especially the points about my project, rounding up to $90,000 from a very specific budget number of $88,000. This suggests trying to inflate the number for a purpose. There’s no evidence of rounding budget numbers in any other document in the set.”<br />
Watts’ criticism of the $2,000 variance is patently absurd.</strong></p>
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<p>Finally, we will consider expanding these efforts further, or developing new ones, if funding can be obtained.</p>
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<p><strong>DeSmogBlog: This seems unlikely to represent an “obvious and gross misstatement of fact.”</strong></p>
<p><strong><span class="caps">SUMMARY</span>:</strong></p>
<p>The foregoing analysis demonstrates that the Climate Strategy Memo is an accurate executive summary of the information contained in budget and fundraising documents that were to be put before the Board at its January meeting.</p>
<p>DeSmogBlog therefore sees no basis whatsoever for Heartland’s assertion that the Climate Strategy memo is a ‘fake” which contains “obvious and gross misstatements of fact.”</p>
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Internal <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute">Heartland Institute</a> strategy and funding documents obtained by DeSmogBlog expose the heart of the climate denial machine – its current plans, many of its funders, and details that confirm what DeSmogBlog and others have reported for years. The heart of the climate denial machine relies on huge corporate and foundation funding from <span class="caps">U.S.</span> businesses including Microsoft, Koch Industries, Altria (parent company of Philip Morris) <span class="caps">RJR</span> Tobacco and more.</p>
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We are releasing the entire trove of documents now to allow crowd-sourcing of the material. Here are a few quick highlights, stay tuned for much more.
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-<strike>Confirmation that Charles G. Koch Foundation is again funding Heartland Institute’s global warming disinformation campaign</strike>. [<strong>Update: </strong><span style="line-height: 1; ">Apparently even the Koch brothers think the Heartland Institute's climate denial program is too toxic to fund. On Wednesday, Koch confirmed that it did not cut a check for the $200K mentioned in the strategy memo after all. A statement released on <a href="http://www.kochfacts.com/kf/confrontingfalsehoodsheartland/">KochFacts.com</a> and the <a href="http://www.charleskochfoundationfacts.org/2012/02/foundation-statement-on-heartland-institute/">charleskochfoundationfacts.org</a> states that “…the Charles Koch Foundation provided $25,000 to the Heartland Institute in 2011 for research in healthcare, not climate change, and this was the first and only donation the Foundation made to the institute in more than a decade. The Foundation has made no further commitments of funding to Heartland.”]</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; "><a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/koch-industries/">Greenpeace’s Koch reports</a> show the <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/koch-industries/heartland-institute-hi/">last time Heartland received Koch funding was in 1999</a>. <br /><br />
The **<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/2012 Climate Strategy.pdf">January 2012 Confidential Memo: 2012 Heartland Climate Strategy</a>** states:</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; "><span class="dquo">“</span>We will also pursue additional support from the Charles G. Koch Foundation. They returned as a Heartland donor in 2011 with a contribution of $200,000. We expect to push up their level of support in 2012 and gain access to their network of philanthropists, if our focus continues to align with their interests. Other contributions will be pursued for this work, especially from corporations whose interests are threatened by climate policies.”</p>
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<p>-Heartland Institute’s global warming denial machine is chiefly – and perhaps entirely – funded by one Anonymous donor:</p>
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<p>Our climate work is attractive to funders, especially our key Anonymous Donor (whose contribution dropped from $1,664,150 in 2010 to $979,000 in 2011 - about 20% of our total 2011 revenue). He has promised an increase in 2012…”</p>
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<p>-Confirmation of exact amounts flowing to certain key climate contrarians. </p>
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<p><span class="dquo">“</span>funding for high-profile individuals who regularly and publicly counter the alarmist <span class="caps">AGW</span> message. At the moment, this funding goes primarily to Craig Idso ($11,600 per month), Fred Singer ($5,000 per month, plus expenses), Robert Carter ($1,667 per month), and a number of other individuals, but we will consider expanding it, if funding can be found.”</p>
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<p>-As <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/green/2012/02/14/425354/internal-documents-climate-denier-heartland-institute-plans-global-warming-curriculum-for-k-12-schools/" style="color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none; ">Brad Johnson reported today at ThinkProgress</a>, confirmation that Heartland is working with <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/david-wojick" style="color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none; ">David Wojick</a>, a <span class="caps">U.S.</span> Energy Department contract worker and coal industry consultant, to develop a ‘Global Warming Curriculum for K-12 Schools.’</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; ">-Forbes and other business press are favored outlets for Heartland’s dissemination of climate denial messages, and the group is worried about maintaining that exclusive space. They note in particular the work of <a href="http://www.pacinst.org/about_us/staff_board/gleick/">Dr. Peter Gleick</a>:</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; "><span class="dquo">“</span>Efforts at places such as Forbes are especially important now that they have begun to allow high-profile climate scientists (such as Gleick) to post warmist science essays that counter our own. This influential audience has usually been reliably anti-climate and <strong>it is important to keep opposing voices out</strong>.” (emphasis added)</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; ">Note the irony here that Heartland Institute – one of the major mouthpieces behind the debunked <a href="http://desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/4623">‘Climategate’</a> email theft who harped about the suppression of denier voices in peer-reviewed literature – now defending its turf in the unscientific business magazine realm.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; ">-Interesting mentions of Andrew Revkin as a potential ally worth “cultivating,” along with Judith Curry.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; "><span class="dquo">“</span>Efforts might also include cultivating more neutral voices with big audiences (such as Revkin at DotEarth/<span class="caps">NYT</span>imes, who has a well-known antipathy for some of the more extreme <span class="caps">AGW</span> communicators such as Romm, Trenberth, and Hansen) or Curry (who has become popular with our supporters).”</p>
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<p>-Confirmation that skeptic blogger Anthony Watts is part of Heartland’s funded network of misinformation communicators.</p>
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<p><span class="dquo">“</span>We have also pledged to help raise around $90,000 in 2012 for Anthony Watts to help him create a new website to track temperature station data.”</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; ">Stay tuned for more details as DeSmogBlog and others dig through this trove of Heartland Institute documents. The Heartland Institute's legacy of evasion of this level of transparency and accountability has now been shattered. </p>
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<p>Read the documents [all <span class="caps">PDF</span> (except one .doc)]:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/2012 Climate Strategy.pdf" style="color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none; ">January 2012 Confidential Memo: 2012 Heartland Climate Strategy</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/Minutes of January 17 meeting.doc">Minutes of January 17 board meeting (.doc)</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/2 Agenda for January 17 Meeting_0.pdf">Agenda for January 17, 2012 Board Meeting</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/Board Meeting Package January 17_0.pdf">Board Meeting Package January 17, 2012</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/Binder1.pdf">Binder 1 (maybe overlap with above documents)</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/(1-15-2012) 2012 Heartland Budget.pdf">2012 Heartland Budget</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/(1-15-2012) 2012 Fundraising Plan_0.pdf">2012 Heartland Fundraising Plan</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/2010_IRS_Form_990.pdf">2010 Heartland <span class="caps">IRS</span> Form 990 (public document)</a></p>
<p>Stay tuned… see also <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-insider-exposes-institute-s-budget-and-strategy">DeSmogBlog's Richard Littlemore's coverage</a>.<br /> </p>
<p><strong>**The Heartland Institute alleges that the 2012 climate strategy document is a “fake” and has threatened the DeSmogBlog with legal action. However, the organization has not provided any</strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "> <strong>proof to support its allegations. We see no </strong></span><strong>basis in fact or law for us to remove this document, and will leave it available in the public interest</strong><strong>.</strong></p>
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<div class="field field-name-field-bimage field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/styles/blog_teaser/public/images/blog-feature-2211.jpg?itok=iatRavEr" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p style="margin: 1.5pt 0in" class="MsoNormal">When did the global warming hoax die? </p><p style="margin: 1.5pt 0in" class="MsoNormal">Historians are likely to pinpoint 2007. </p><p style="margin: 1.5pt 0in" class="MsoNormal">It will take another decade to insure it cannot be revived, but the avalanche of scientific studies and the cumulative impact of scientists who have publicly joined those who debunked the lies on which it has been based will be noted as the tipping point. <a href="http://newsbyus.com/more.php?id=9489_0_1_0_M">It took some forty years to unmask the Piltdown Man hoax </a>that began in 1912 alleging that the skull of an ancient ancestor of man had been found in England…The unmasking of “global warming” has taken less than half that time.<font size="2"> </font></p><font size="2"> </font></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-14 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/695">david wojick</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/788">Tim Patterson</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/962">roy spencer</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/1901">Alan Caruba</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/2093">Reid Bryson</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/2094">Joseph D’Aleo</a></div></div></div>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:20:20 +0000Ross Gelbspan2211 at http://www.desmogblog.comDavid Wojickhttp://www.desmogblog.com/david-wojick
<div class="field field-name-field-rogueimage field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/David%20Wojick_0.jpg" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><h1>
David E. Wojick</h1>
<h2> Credentials</h2>
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Ph.D. “The Logic of Science”, specializing in Mathematical Logic and Conceptual Analysis, University of Pittsburgh (1974).</li>
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B.S., Civil Engineering, Carnegie-Mellon University (1964).</li>
</ul><p><strong>Source: </strong><a href="#s1">[1]</a>, <a href="#s2">[2]</a></p>
<h2> Background</h2>
<p>Wojick is a journalist and policy analyst. He holds a doctorate in epistemology, specializing in the field of <a href="http://www.bydesign.com/powervision/resume.html">Mathematical Logic and Conceptual Analysis</a>.</p>
<p>Wojick was a <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/19990220084713/http://www.greeningearthsociety.org/advisors.htm#Wojick">“scientific advisor”</a> for a now-defunct <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/08/14/BU70391.DTL">Greening Earth Society</a>, a group created by the <a href="http://www.westernfuels.org/">Western Fuels Association</a>, a large <span class="caps">US</span> coal industry association.</p>
<p>In his role as a “policy analyst,” Wojick's client list includes <a href="http://www.aes.com/aes/index?page=home"><span class="caps">AES</span> Corporation</a>, one of the largest electrical generation companies, with much of that in the form of coal, and <a href="http://www.alleghenyenergysupply.com/ASHome.asp">Allegheny Energy</a>, a company that generates 95% of its power from coal.</p>
<p>Wojick is the owner and operator of <a href="http://www.climatechangedebate.org/"> Climatechangedebate.org</a>, a listserv discussing Climate Change. In this capacity, Wojick injects discussion and information highlighting climate change as a non-issue.</p>
<p>He has been a <a href="http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=17190">columnist</a> for the “Electricity Daily,” a now-defunct electrical industry trade magazine.</p>
<p>From 1976 - 1981, Wojick was head of Adams <span class="amp">&amp;</span> Wojick Associates, which worked on federal regulations for industry and government.</p>
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Stance on Climate Change</h2>
<p>“The problem is that the earth is very large and the temperature is always changing, everywhere, so how can we possibly tell if overall it is a mere half-degree warmer today than it was around 1902? The origin of the theory of global warming (for it is just a theory) lies in taking the thermometer readings we happen to have from the last 100 years and massaging them in various ways. Some places have clearly warmed, others have clearly cooled. Many have gone up and down but with little apparent trend. To get a global result requires a lot of statistical manipulation.<br /><br />
“…even if the earth has warmed a little bit there is still the very real possibility that this warming is natural, that the models are no good, that warming is beneficial, etc.” <a href="#s3">[3]</a></p>
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Key Quotes</h2>
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<p>“In point of fact, the hypothesis that solar variability and not human activity is warming the oceans goes a long way to explain the puzzling idea that the Earth's surface may be warming while the atmosphere is not. The <span class="caps">GHG</span> hypothesis does not do this.” <a href="#s4">[4]</a></p>
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Key Deeds</h2>
<p><strong>July, 2003</strong></p>
<p>Wojick participated in shaping the <a href="http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/stratplan2003/final/annexa.htm"> </a>Strategic Plan for the Climate Change Program <a href="http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/stratplan2003/final/annexa.htm">(<span class="caps">SPCC</span>) </a> final report in July, 2003. In his presentation to representatives of <a href="http://www.climatescience.gov/default.php"> <span class="caps">CCSP</span></a> (The Climate Change Science Program) he <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ClimateArchive/message/395"> “made the case for uncertainty.”</a> <a href="#s5">[5]</a></p>
<p>His report, “Uncertainties, Milestones and Issues in the <span class="caps">CCSP</span>,” was originally available on the <a href="http://www.api.org/"> American Petroleum Institute's</a> website, but has since been removed.</p>
<h2> Affiliations</h2>
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<p><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Natural_Resources_Stewardship_Project"><strong>Natural Resources Stewardship Project (<span class="caps">NRSP</span>)</strong> </a>— Past “<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090324085625/http://nrsp.com/scientists.html">Allied Expert</a>.” The <span class="caps">NRSP</span> is now defunct. <a href="#s6">[6]</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Greening_Earth_Society"><strong>Greening Earth Society </strong></a>— Past “<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/19990220084713/http://www.greeningearthsociety.org/advisors.htm#Wojick">Scientific Advisor</a>.” The Greening Earth Society is now defunct. <a href="#s2">[2]</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heartland_Institute"><strong>The Heartland Institute</strong></a> — “<a href="http://heartland.org/david-wojick">Expert</a>.” <a href="#s7">[7]</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Environment...Climate_News"><em>Environment <span class="amp">&amp;</span> Climate News</em><em> </em></a> </strong>— <a href="http://heartland.org/newspaper-submission/2005/05/03/publicity-stunt?artId=16972">Contributing Editor</a>. <a href="#s9">[9]</a></p>
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<p><strong><em>Electricity Daily</em></strong> — Past <a href="http://heartland.org/newspaper-submission/2005/05/02/another-false-alarm-global-warming?artId=17190">columnist</a> (the magazine is now defunct). <a href="#s4">[4]</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.osti.gov/"><strong><span class="caps">OSTI</span> </strong></a>— Past consultant, in areas of “information and communication science.” <a href="#s8">[8]</a></p>
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</ul><h2> Publications</h2>
<p>According to a search of 22,000 academic journals, Wojick has not published any research in peer-reviewed journals on the subject of climate change.</p>
<p>According to a search of Google Scholar, Wojick has published 11 articles in peer-reviewed journals, mainly on the subject of epistemology.</p>
<h2> Resources</h2>
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<p><a name="s1" id="s1"></a>“<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20070704154047/http://www.bydesign.com/powervision/resume.html">David E. Wojick, <span class="caps">PE</span>, Ph.D.</a>” (Resume), PowerVision. Archived July 4, 2007.</p>
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<p><a name="s2" id="s2"></a>“<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/19990220084713/http://www.greeningearthsociety.org/advisors.htm#Wojick">Scientific Advisors</a>,” The Greening Earth Society. Archived February 20, 1999.</p>
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<p><a name="s3" id="s3"></a>David E. Wojick. “<a href="http://www.fcpp.org/publication.php/216">A skeptic's guide to global warming</a>,” <em>National Post</em>, October 1, 2002. Republished by the Frontier Center for Public Policy.</p>
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<p><a name="s4" id="s4"></a>David E. Wojick. “<a href="http://heartland.org/newspaper-submission/2005/05/02/another-false-alarm-global-warming?artId=17190">Another False Alarm on Global Warming</a>,” The Heartland Institute, May 2, 2005.</p>
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<p><a name="s5" id="s5"></a>“<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ClimateArchive/message/395">Re: Strategic Plan for the <span class="caps">U.S.</span> <span class="caps">CCSP</span> (Jl 2003)</a>, Wojick's Assessment” E-mail from David E. Wojick, published at ClimateArchive.</p>
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<p><a name="s6" id="s6"></a>“<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090324085625/http://nrsp.com/scientists.html">Natural Resources Stewardship Project 'Allied Experts'</a>,” Natural Resources Stewardship Project. Archived March 24, 2009.</p>
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<p><a name="s7" id="s7"></a>“<a href="http://heartland.org/david-wojick">Heartland Experts: David Wojick</a>,” The Heartland Institute. Accessed February, 2012.</p>
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<p><a name="s8" id="s8"></a>“A Taxonomy of Energy Subjects briefly explained,” (<a href="http://cendi.dtic.mil/presentations/KOS_OSTI_Energy_Taxonomy.pdf"><span class="caps">PDF</span></a>), <span class="caps">DOE</span> Office of Scientific and Technical Information (<a href="http://www.osti.gov">www.osti.gov</a>), June 4, 2004.</p>
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<p><a name="s9" id="s9"></a>David Wojick. “<a href="http://heartland.org/newspaper-submission/2005/05/03/publicity-stunt?artId=16972">Publicity Stunt</a>,” The Heartland Institute, May 3, 2005.</p>
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<p>“<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_E._Wojick">David E. Wojick</a>,” SourceWatch Profile.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1174">ExxonSecrets Factsheet: David Wojick</a>.</p>
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